Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-08-04
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ngp or lease the house or land she
holds In her W name without con
sulting her husband.-St Loais Repab-
kcdn. m
~. Fl. S~tringfellow. Of Crockett
Tex, has had o tombstone made for
his log, bearing the date Of amputa-
ton and the inscription: "Here lies
the leg"
"A Toledo woman, discovering that
her neighbors house extended two and
a half feet on her grounds, hired a car
penter to saw off that much, and built
o fence on the line.
-Petriied Holsters, clans, turtles
and the like are found in great abund-
ance in the Santa Catalina mountains
in Arizona, at a height of nearly ten
thousand feet above the level Of the
sea.
Commodore Vanderbilt laid the
basis Of his fortune when he quit steam
boating and went to railroading. John
Il. Starin's great wealth began to come
when he quit railroading and began to
manage steamboat lines.
The employment of women as
printers Is increasing in England. A
women's printing society has been
formed with leading names on the list
Of directors. while the excellence Of
the work done by INT printers is
testified to by so eminent authority rs
Ruskin.
w. P. Miller, Of Westside, Pa, has
a hen to Drag of. One day recently
she laid an egg that was six inches and
q half long and eight inches and a half
around; and the next day she laid an
other that was six inches long and
seven inches and three-quarters in cir
conference.
Live bears are not ~infrequently a
part Of an express messengers load in
California. They are quite as easily
managed as dogs; the novelty of the
situation, in connection with the rumble
and jar of the train, no doubt drives all
thought of mischief out of their heads.
A short time ago a young bear gotloose
in the Los Angeles office during the
night and had quite a picnic all byhim-
SELF Cleveland Leader.
There was picked up in the river
ut Bath, Me-, recently, the water
soaked and battered figure-head of a
vessel, which must have been q century
old at least The figure is of maple,
about five feet in height, and repre-
sents the head and shoulders of a mar.
When found it was frozen to the bot
tom Of a cake of ice, as if the breaking
up Of the river might have torn it from
some ancient and forgotten wreck.
Essex, Mass, has q citizen whose
greatest claim to distinction is his APP
petite, and that is remarkable. He will
rise at two o'clock in the morning and
eat a slice of meat, some eggs, several
pieces of bread, cut of ham and per-
haps n few potatoes. At even o'clock
he eats q hearty breakfast. At nine he
has another. About ten he begins to
grow hungry again. He is always
craving food, and yet the doctors say
that the man is well.-M. Y. Sun.
If the relative mortality of all
males aged from twenty-five to sixty
five years be taken as one thousand,
the exceptional MORALLY Of special
classes has been calculated as follows,
viz:
Inn and hotel servants
General London laborers. t. 4. ........... 1000
Costermongers .'....'........,... ........l.SI9
Cornwall miners .1.839
Agricultural laborers. .701
rhrincrs.. .U3l
Gardeners. 500
Clcrgymcn go. $50
-Congregdtionalist.
Soldiers are "soft" OF "hard'' ac-
cording to the temperature at which
they melt. Hard soldiers fuse at a red
heat. Soft soldiers are those which can
be applied with a soldering iron." or
with a mouth blow-pipe; these soldiers
melt below, say three hundred de-
grees G. Hard soldiers have q much
higher fusing point, and require
either a forge or n blast blow-pipe to
apply them. Soldering with hard sold
ders is termed 'brazing." -Boston Bud
get.
Jones. a young nan who lives in
'Brookfeld, Conn, possesses the mar
velous faculty of telling the exact hour
mt any time. day or night. without con-
sun, moo or timepiece. II
awakened at night he is always ready
to give the time. and never is he ten
minutes out Of the way. There is one
condition necessary, however. He
must lie on his back, with his head to
the north. il it be at night, or If in
the daytime, he must stand with his
face to the north. He lives on tick,
perhaps.-N Y. Herald.
PROF. Sargent, Director Of the Ar
mold Arboretum, Of Harvard College,
estimates that five foreign trees are
planted in New England to one native.
Yet, of all foreign trees introduced
into America, the willow alone, he
thinks. has qualities not possessed in q
greater degree by some natives. The
European oak, and the Scotch, Aus
TRAN and Corsican pines all die at
about the time they should be in their
prime. and the Norway spruce, at a
corresponding age, is decrepit and un.
sightly-Popular Science Monthlg.